House of Bones by Annie Hauxwell (ePUB, MOBI)

1961. On a merchant ship travelling from Hong Kong to London, a young boy is brutally murdered. His body is cast overboard, his identity erased. But he has not been forgotten. Whitechapel, London. It’s a cold spring in the capital, and Catherine Berlin is running out of luck. Battling the effects of heroin withdrawal, and bearing the scars of her most recent case, she is also running out of time. An old contact has offered her a job assisting a police investigation into the riverside murder of a homeless man, but all that is left of the body is a pool of blood and a few broken teeth. A young boy hands himself in, claiming that he was acting in self-defence, but he seems to have powerful friends, people who are eager to see that he sticks to his story. Digging around on the docks, Berlin uncovers a clue that points to a crime decades old, and one that reaches from the shores of the Thames to the Palace of Westminster… House of Bones is the fourth novel in the inimitable Catherine Berlin series, and a breathtaking and blood-spattered whodunit.